Leadership Lessons from Film, The Dirty Dozen
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LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM “THE DIRTY DOZEN”
In the next paragraphs we are going to examine the Leadership lessons derived from the film “THE DIRTY DOZEN” based on the LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE book by Kouzes and Posner and the Leadership model and theory they establish through their analysis. According to their model there are specific steps/functions which constitute the process of establishing an effective leadership.
The first step is to model the way: you need to do exactly what you are saying you are going to do and be a moving example of what you preach. Be able to show empathy, put yourself under the difficulties that you ask the others to go through. Provide efficient directions, evaluation, clear-cut procedures and mechanisms of control. Lay down and clarify the significance of priorities and the plan that would make feasible and attainable your direction and target to be achieved.
The second step is to inspire a shared vision that everybody will subscribe upon: create a system of values and motivations of the participants based and reflected through the actions of the past and the common experience of the team. Create the vision by allowing everybody to include his own thoughts or personal story and then make it specific and more concrete by forming a descriptive / motivational statement. Be clear of the path you are following and try not to lose track and consistency. Be able to be an effective listener and enrich your own thoughts by the smartness of the people that surround you. Make sure that your team of people has ascribed to your own vision and dream and have made it part of their own personal stories. In other words, be sure that they have been convinced to place your dream / vision / target at the top of their hierarchy of needs and that they are planning the way they can fit it in their lives.
The third step is to challenge the process: this perhaps takes more of stamina to succeed because it pre-supposes that the leader has both the
LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM “THE DIRTY DOZEN”
In the next paragraphs we are going to examine the Leadership lessons derived from the film “THE DIRTY DOZEN” based on the LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE book by Kouzes and Posner and the Leadership model and theory they establish through their analysis. According to their model there are specific steps/functions which constitute the process of establishing an effective leadership.
The first step is to model the way: you need to do exactly what you are saying you are going to do and be a moving example of what you preach. Be able to show empathy, put yourself under the difficulties that you ask the others to go through. Provide efficient directions, evaluation, clear-cut procedures and mechanisms of control. Lay down and clarify the significance of priorities and the plan that would make feasible and attainable your direction and target to be achieved.
The second step is to inspire a shared vision that everybody will subscribe upon: create a system of values and motivations of the participants based and reflected through the actions of the past and the common experience of the team. Create the vision by allowing everybody to include his own thoughts or personal story and then make it specific and more concrete by forming a descriptive / motivational statement. Be clear of the path you are following and try not to lose track and consistency. Be able to be an effective listener and enrich your own thoughts by the smartness of the people that surround you. Make sure that your team of people has ascribed to your own vision and dream and have made it part of their own personal stories. In other words, be sure that they have been convinced to place your dream / vision / target at the top of their hierarchy of needs and that they are planning the way they can fit it in their lives.
The third step is to challenge the process: this perhaps takes more of stamina to succeed because it pre-supposes that the leader has both the